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When the small Mamie cakes (topped with white icing, pink rosebuds and "Mamie" in pink icing) arrived, Mrs. John S. Doud warned her daughters (Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. George Gordon Moore) to save theirs for her great grandchildren. The First Lady laughingly defied her mother, told the head table "I love sweets" and munched away...
...where the money had come from in the beginning. "Newspapermen have always been very good to me," said Sammy gratefully. "They have even gone out and borrowed money from other people-just to pay me off." Sammy planned to put his fortune into trust for his wife, children and grandchildren. But after that, he announced, it will become a scholarship fund at the University of Missouri School of Journalism...
...quit in 1950 and lived on. Proudly, he counted his five great-grandchildren, but most of his friends were gone; he had passed through the dreary years when an old man watches his world die around him. Last year even the Athletics left him; their franchise moved to Kansas City. Sick at heart from the bickering that marked the sale of his team, laid up with a broken hip, his mind drifting steadily toward the past, the old gentleman was still Mr. Baseball. Even young men who had never seen Connie Mack on the field understood how much had passed...
...race relations. This kind of segregation is not based upon race . . . The court has no power to interfere with or place a limitation upon the power of any state to regulate health, morals, education, marriage and good order within the state." Eastland said heavily that President Eisenhower's grandchildren go to a segregated private school: "Ike is like all interracial politicians-he wants it for the other fellow...
President Eisenhower flew last week from Washington (19°) to Key West, Fla. (72°) for two weeks of work and exercise in the sun. He took with him warm Christmas memories: of a 40-lb. Kansas turkey and an 18-ft. Christmas tree, of his three grandchildren caroling O Come, All Ye Faithful for a crowd of press photographers; of his First Lady, in a red dress, showing off one of the presents she received before church on Christmas morning, a gold-star medallion inscribed on one side "To Mamie" and on the other "For never-failing help since...